Quickly, before he can edit!
Hec (quoting Betsy): My husband just came into my office, found me sitting on my balance ball, and discovered with glee that he can dribble me.
Well, in a purely imperialist way, we managed to sweep The Philippines under our influence because of the Spanish American War.
Betsy: Filled the bathtub with giraffes yet?
Quickly, before he can edit!
Hmph.
stupid clipboard...
Hec
, editing to try to dig himself out but, as is so often the case, making matters worse:
because Betsy's husband is not waging imperialistic war on her balance ball.
sarameg:
OK, I missed something so completely that now I'm fighting tears. Picturing Betsy's husband chasing after Betsy's balance ball with napoleonic posture, waving garlic and shouting something about the colonies.
If I die in an attempt to not explain this to my officemate, it is all y'alls fault.
Nutty, in the context of a lengthy Natter discussion about jock straps and other buttless articles of clothing:
Logically, then, butted chaps are the sole province of the cowboy.
Nutty:
Men always underestimate the power of the VPL.
Emily, in Bitches, on exes:
Actually, despite my joking, I'm really living in the happy fantasy that purely coincidentally, after we broke up they found the woman for whom they were destined. And in fact that they were slightly wistful over not settling down with me, but that they knew they couldn't give me the life that I really deserved and so they shouldn't hold me back.
Yes. Also, I have violet eyes and an entrancing singing voice, and I could get the ship back to the Alpha Quadrant by snapping my fingers. No, literally! I'm Q's niece!